Oil-can nozzle



(No' Model.)

J. S. PETER.

OIL CAN NOZZLE.

No. 396,891. Patented Jan. 29, 1889.

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JOHN S. PETER, OF LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.

OIL- -CAN NOZZLE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 396,891, dated January 29, 1889.

Application filed August 16, 1888. Serial No. 282,899. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN S. PETER, of Lincoln, in the county of Lancaster and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and Improved Oil-Can Nozzle, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a nozzle or tip adapted for connection to the spout of any ordinary oil-can, and has for its object to prevent waste of oil, which ordinarily attends the use of an open-spouted oil-can, and also to accomplish this by a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction.and combinations of parts of the oil-can nozzle, all as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to behad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 :is a side elevation, partly in sec tion 011 the line a" .2: in Fig. 3, of part of an ordinary oil-can with my improved nozzle or tip applied thereto. Fig. 2 is an end view of the nozzle, partly broken away and in section. Fig. 3 is a section taken through the nozzle and on the line y g in Fig. 1, the nozzle being closed; and Fig. i is a detail sectional view showing a slightlyanodified form of the nozzle.

My improved oil can nozzle or tip consists, mainly, of three parts-a tube, A, having an interior lengthwise passage or bore, a, for discharge of the oil, a head-piece, B, which is fitted for rotation or partial rotation within the back part or hub .of the tube A, and to which the oil-can spout is fastened, and a spring, which is held to the h cad-piece B and engages the tube A to normally turn it so to carry its bore a out of line with the annular passage or bore Z) of the headpiece to cut off the flow of oil from the can D through its spout (Z, to the extremity of which the head-piece is fixed.

In the form of the device shown in Fig. 1 of the drawii'igs, the hub a of the nozzle-tube A is provided with a central bore having like diameter throughout, and in which is fitted for rotation the longer forward portion of the head-piece B, which is enlarged behind the tube-hub to form a collar providing a shoulder, Z), against which the back end of the tube-hub a has a bearing to prevent backward motion of the tube. Any suitable spring may be employed to automatically turn the nozzle to cut off the flow of oil therefrom. The spring 0 shown has a coil, 0, secured to and wound around the projectin end of the which will be fixed to the oil-can spout d by' soldering or in any other approved way.

Instead of boring the tube -hub d of like diameter it may be provided with an outwardly-taliiering bore, and the head-piece B will be fitted to this taperingbore, as shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings, which construction of itself prevents backward movement of the tube A, and makes a shoulder, as Z1, on the headpiece unnecessary. The spring C may also be fitted to the rear end of the head-piece and engage a log or lip-bearing at the rear side of the nozzle-tube, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. of the drawings, and in this case a forward prolongation of the head-piece to accommodate the spring would be dispensed with.

In usin an oil can provided with this improved nozzle or tip the tube A, while it is held by the spring (J in normal position, (shown in Fig. 2-3 of the drawin or with its bore (L out of line withthc head-piece bore 1), will be placed into an oiling-hole, g, in a bearing, G, for a shaft or other moving part, and the body of the oil-can, and consequently its spout (Z ard the attached nozzle head-piece B, will then be turned by the operator until the other shoulder or end wall, c, of the tubeslot E strikes the head-piece pin. F, which movement will have brought the bores a b of the tube and head-piece to coincide to let oil flow from the nozzle and can, and. when the proper quantity of oil has been discharged the tube A will simply be lifted from the oilhole g, and the spring C will instantly throw the tube back again to move the bore (4 out of register with the bore 1'), and consequently cut off tfiow of oil from the nozzle. Tn oiling fiat surfaces it is only necessary to press the nozzle tube A onto the surface, and thereby turn it sufficiently to bring the bores (L b into register, and the oil will flow from the nozzle, and its flow will be cut off by the throwing around of the tube A by the spring 0 the instant the tube is removed from the surf ace.

It is obvious that by the aid of this nozzle any ordinary oil-can to which it is fitted may be used to conveniently oil iiot-easilyaecessible parts of locomotive-engines or other-machines, and without waste of oil, which almost necessarily follows whenusing an openspouted oilean or one not provided with a deviceof this character.

Having thus described my in vention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with a can-nozzle, ot' a rotatable discharge-tube fitted thereto and projecting laterally and a spring automatically holding the tube in position to normally cut off the flow of oil or other fluid from the nozzle, substantially as herein set forth.

2. The combination, in a can-nozzle, of a head-piece adapted for attachment to an oil or fluid can or vessel and having an angular or curved interior passage or bore, a rotatable lateral]y-projecting discharge-tube fitted to the headpiece and having a passage adapted to register with the head -piece passage, and a spring automatically holding the discharge-tube in position to cut oil": the oil or fiuid flow from the nozzle, substantially as herein set forth.

3. The combination, in a can-nozzle, of a tube, A, having a passage, a, a head-piece, B, provided with an angular or curved passage, b, and fitted to The tube so as to prevent backward movement thereof, said tube projecting laterally from the headpiece, a spring connected to the head-piece and normally throwing the passages a I) out of line, and a stop device on the head-piece and tube, substantially as described, for the purposes set forth.

JOHN s. PETER.

\Yitnesses:

JOHN SULLIVAN, E. F. ESTES. 

